The Sun. — London, England, 1809-05-24 00:00:00

J.imdrc4. , . TRIAL OF TX° NEGROES fOrt •REEttLLIN., Kr \ GSTON,APRSL 1, 1,809.—A Slave Court as. • sembh d at t',e Court 'House this day, for the trial of Sam? i) John and Peter Watkins, fOr being con cerned n.a rt.hellious conspiracy against ,the White Itibrni:ares of this Island. • (.);1 I: e prisoner; being put to the bar, and pre vious ttr) the iudiament being 'yead,- the Solicitors (Messrs. G vies and M`Driugal) - concerned for them, look an ohje-tion to the testimony of George. Bur gess,who was 10 he ad•fnced aS evidence against the prisoners, he having..been tried by a Court Martini for repeated deserti o n,. tound,guilty, and :ondemned to suffer death, consequently was not a competent witness until his v atclon, under the King's sign ma -1301, should be . produced. . Mr. WHYTIS, toe liecorder of the City, felt it his duty t o state, that the King'• siett manual under the , Great Seal must c , ...rtainly'be prodoc,d to fender him a competent witness, and cited several aueliorities iron, Erst's Rules of Evidence. • • - A message w accordingly dispatched to Major. General Carmichael, at 'Gray's Penn, requesting he would attend the Court ; but the . Gew.ral being en gaged preparing dispatches to be sent to 'England next morni 1) ) tire ship General . Miranda, lie seta his aid-de-camp, Major Twiggovith his commission,. and the pardon of George Burgess, hoping that as the Mitj r could prove his handi.writing, the Court would dispense wiih his arrend,ince. The Major-General's cOttunission,, under the sign manual, was then intducect. Mr. GyLVI, 1 , 1 the luisoners-, conceived it ne cessary that the Secretary at War's hand-writing should be proved, as the •eommission itingbt be a forg er y. Mr. WHYTE, however, clearly chewed horn vari- Ns authorities, that the commission under the Great tr ' S e.iir or even the Secretary's Or s tice, did even the City 'Pi, may be received in evidenee. Th'e commis - sion Was admitted. iThe SoLicrroa for the Cl io Wl4 then read the in di titreirt, wriielt chaiged the prisoners with being concerned in a rebellious conspiracy, subversive of I the laws of their country, by intending to mtrder the white inhabitants of this Island, and burn the towns about the end of March, &c. I le. t hen short ly recapitrilated to the Jury the evidence that would t be add trer ,..d to wove these ta,Js, and e%plained the putirshritent which the law intlicled for the crime. , Major Twig. was •called to produCe the pardon and prove the Gelieral's hand-writing._ Ur. GyLas took an obieetiotr to this .mode of proof, as according to the .rules of evidence, the 1 ijor-Genetal betug its the island, it was necessary tha t t r s h ou l d pi . ovq 104 own s:gnature. • Mr. WHyre coneedegi this point, arid a mes tagi was Ik'lll 13 the Gen , rah, requesting his at tendance,- and in abater halt an boor he appeaTd in ' Court, produced the radon, and proved his signa- Ore. ' • George Burgess was then called and sworn. , Mr. G Y LE'S' here required, .previous• to his going 'on with his restim,iiy, thus lie should first be sworn also io answer the Solicitors for the prisoners all such ` , questions as they might put to him, which was ac ordingly done, and Iry Fut:Lead to examine him as • tottises r , • Q. Are you not tti be, or, °neatened to be flogged, if Par do i.ot tell ilw sumo story here as,you told .1 before the Niagj.tr,ues ?-=-.A. I was not threat reel, b ut Was told, by M-jw -General , Carmichael to tell ail the trtuh, and .nott.ing but the tenth. Ala )ou a clnistlan ?-e-A. I am ; I was anis- - ter* at Antigua. Giorgi? Burgess—Knows tire prisogers at t Bar, but i,PI best acquainted witlt Sambo John; be be-, lOnged to a society,- of which the latter kvas at tire bead. About two weeks and a halt before he was uppreheaded, on a Sattirday niryr he came (urn! 47panish r A l owts, aod fell in whir, r at GreensVich negro, named 'norms, whom he had known. sinoo I . IC Was a - drummer ; John' iii co:fpaoy•; tnas asked !inn 'to drink wilts them, w Inch *hen they ittfot med him they were making up a so, ciety. Some evening met Samba John and Thomas F at tile place where- the society mustpredevery day :. they till three sat do‘in under a timerrind tree; SamboJohn mixed a cocoa•nnfof wog, anddrank— I wish it was timid instead grog.". Witness louttediately observed, that this was an invroper Word ; that be had oft, is known persons taken up j io Trinidad, for such expressions by. General Pii.Ari, and hung for it. Samtio John immediately replied to wittiest, that be was too inelUiSiliVe and forward in other people's affairs, .and s irl, that " liberty is g o od, arid lib.erty' he or they woulditave ; olio; that 1 wit° 9 they feld got lid of their present trittAcrs,.they I.asity ;et rid or the rest." Witriesc replied— I eth, it Wa.E, but that wit; a Vel'jr illlfiirycr way to ;rt I. 4)erty ;" on which Sainho John ags'io said,' that would haYe tt.',' 011 crAning dovvn Upper etgrqtrt:et, oppo;ite a 'Mr.. Mill ward's riquor-strop, at t'io - John cbser . v.cd; poitilio to its "'this itS rile I 11 . % )j g i ' t mean to begin, aiid wi:en We do begin we a great tb assist us." They all three togeth-r, , and .8t SO: Z.:3 *Corner, 'John ' 631 '4; ' t 11 , ;aSe .Gorl r lace. wili soon be' like St: 4 .Art4itir. o ." m ot s ; inked him h0 . : 06 , he thought it ‘,‘" l2l .ti he n, kJ-creed, that it bad for some rhe past Leo ill of the peottle Of co but no v. they are getting to leeward of the 'white people, who would ;,-,oon ;:et the bettr of thorn. Sambo John . - said. Ido not think the whin people would be able to get the butler of us." j , mess then observed to him, that if -you get it liland), the wnite people will get it away from Yoh 71gain . ; to which Satnho John " when One they had got ir, it world not be easily taken frcim them.l Witness overheard Sarnbo`John and Thomas conversing abode going to Greenwich, but did tot distindly hear wharthey said-, on repeating it to Thomas, .he told him they were going there to get' some powder, when witness told them it was needless 'for them to go to Greenwich, as he had gage 00 duty there, and kneW it was too well taken care of, 'and you will only get yourselves and others 14 9' 1 ". Sienna John sroke in French to_Thornas; wltt/e4 noderstands' it, but John' did not know lie did• "-Samba .Jobe had coniusarid of a party, saw th em to the ()id Road with sticks exercising like 4 °lti4tri, .101111 giv nig the :-word of conunand as an Offiver—he. gave the word " march ".-..there were • is was undetstood to Jae meant tin blood of white ; • plu. • • , • - , . about 24, of them: sambe, John had a pair of liouge, where. be saw him will tha cow - 4)orna 3114 tots in his han,a, and Peter Watkins ,V3'3 Ak)'til , tl 4 POWder, and saw Satnbo Jahn givehini five swords. exercising with a stick. They had also two poVecier ;;. Witness .Was told by the Duke hirriself that In. was horn 4, one foil, the niher not 3' John gave obit; of tit !head matt, and that lie would ! nit e (wit. pistols tn Thnmas; witness took It in his hand, aed an Officer. &nribo'• John's party consisted - of observed, that it had got no ramrod ar sight; ern about 200, .which he called by a rattle. Sunday whach ,Sambo 'John aaid to Thomas, that a piece of ; evenings were days of meetitig; .denied _that he had • stink would do for a ramrod, wanted one.— been gratik. Witness- heard. Smith° Joan Satoh() John had a large piece of paper cut into the s hr , " the' he hoped Jamaica would soon hi. lihc St. shape of a kite, which lie told Thomas to stick up as repeated it' twice. Other officers a mark to fire at, to see who was the beat mitrks- !-•Wereappeinted, and regular returns were made to man ; SaMbo John fired at and hit it. Witness met t the Duke - after the musters : . Samba John once Slinbo• John and Thomas ne%t morning on the pa- threaten - ed witness that, if he did n u t ic)in, he w ou ld rade, - the former having three cutlasses, the latter raise a party to give him a beating. \'.Vittless joined two .; , Thomas asked witness to g o with th efr y.ivhich tie patty about two months before Christmas . ; :he he said he would do in about an hour ; accordingjii met them at the bottom at the old read-near .a Mr. went en to the Old Road, found Thomas :theree Sinclair's. The Duke's house was at the back of the but nut John; inquired of Thomas what had i workhouse. He made him elf Duke. become of the cetiasses, who informed that t This witness nrevaiicated a great deal in his John had put them tip ; upon which John cam e examination, but which wits evidently occasioned fiy out from among the bushes; and asked_ Ttto- ; the erica of fear, being interrogated in a threatening ITI3S• if any oue •liad come up, to whit:h he re. ; manner. We have therefere, briefly relatedilto fa&s, plied, no ene but witness. Sambo John then said, f which he fully proved. • thaa witness was too inquisitive; Thomas returned The Jury, utter being addressed at some length that lie would tell- him any thing, as he knew he by the Solicitors for the prisoners, retired for could be trusted, and was not a man that would few minutes, and returned with a verdict carry it about. John struck witness, when witness Guilly. - told him to desist, that he was no newsmonger ; •The JuDos then passed the 'awful sentence of `Thomas interfered, and told John that he ought not the Law—That the) were to be taken front the to have struck witness. About the middle of th e place from whence they came, and rhea to the day after the muster, witness saw Sambo John and place of ex e cution, an d hung until they were dead: Peter Watkilts together on the parade, ;hey were a --awhycii wits accordingly carried into execution eloec conversation, but on witness going up, about five o'clock. • . . John blustered out something, as it suddenly chang- !The prisoners aeknetwltalged the justice of their tog the conversation, and asked 'Watkins, if he Was sentence, and tiattabe Jelin tirade further dlicevet . tea going into the country, to which latter replied, m be aganows, informing .ot several more of the that he wits not. When at Maiward's Corner, John riag•leadms if this Woody plot. As the writer of observed, that " that is theiplace where the fire is this quitte , l Eingston the same be was to begin." Witness asked if they thought that a howoltr, learn the particulars of their proper place, and told titem, if tate, did begin these confessions. it Would not burn the mail, as streets itnmediatelya Duriug the above trial Mjar-General Carmichael interse6ted. &turbo Jelin said it was no matter, addressed a letter to one of the Jildipis, by whom it •fhat when the rest saw that on tire, it woutd be a, was shess ito the wriier,of this, an which he said, signal for them to begin ; end addressing himself to ' that it any. taitig tran s pir es i n t h e coul e e o f t h e Thomas, said; there was a great deal uteri: to do— triel'ot a serious nature, I Valli immediately reinforce -there was ihe own squadron which he did not this Wand with 500 , inen otibe 18th regiment. from know of, and that there were a great many.oilier Curacoa ;" whiele it is tale sincerely hopeat the G e . pat:ties that he ( s tunho. k; ht , had not the charge. of. neral. titi done, there not being at the time above : mimed more than i.to epee:live white rt hula s of Francis, and understood that they weut by leigita Witness heard SaroboJohu Thomal by the name tti.it valuable island, for its proiedi:ni. • ed names, than they might not he known. The strengest muster Witness saw was from 24 to 26; they wet at the iron emelt) the old road, and wetsi in two's and three's 4teri five to six o'ciuck in the evening. No chaises or ho-ses pass that way on ac remit of gulleys, elle road. Heard SaMbo Jean himself a Captain, and also tell' Ihomas thiskhe was an - officer, but did not mane his ritik: Samto John had a rattle and ; heard hint shake the former . , which he said wasahe signal ter his people to assemble. • Witoes a knew that ,they had arms and attenunitiop deposited with a Spaniard near the wherry wharf. Saw ,SaitibO John with a lbr casting musket bUllets, who told theist that there was plenty of leadaon his mastet'swhatf, and Ail about that Would do to make slugs ; witness observed it was not for making ,sluga but' ; John replied " It would do for both." Heard &MIDI) John gay they were to , have met to begin .in Wed nesday minion, which was about a week and a half before avimess was apprehended. S:lmbo John sail it , was a disapeoitioneot, alit they would .defer it till the niki tie of Matea ; Thoims it was not his Inuit, And Jelin .told him to tell all :he. rest where to meet, that they might• bevel.° diatenoint ment. .41,1pICATION OF TUE KIM; OF STI'EDEN. ,5 - rooKtform,.lNDLY I I.—Qtt Tuesday the 9th, hi. ,Royal the Regent opened the Diet with a speech address:Al to the Suites, in which the Lord chancellor - (Lagerhjelke) of lIIV Court .131ron, read, att audible voice, a detailed aebitnit (lithe ereati And circumstances .‘ inch had Tendered the Convo catien 01 the States'indispensahly necessary for inn salvation of the countiy. 'The Marshal of the Diet, and !he ri:spect is e Speakers Of the Cler k ;y, Burghers, and Peasants, addresed his 'Royal in ap ptopriate speeches.. On Wednesday the l Oth, an the Members of the States inefatan early hour in one Assembly„ which will ever bet - en : imitable in the annals of Sweden.. 7-", His Royal Highness having ordered the Lord, Chan- cellar to read-aloud the Act at Abdication, volun tarily. made by the riing On :ho 29th day of :d arch, Iry t ZlPll:.iontrtrtreiro rtoe and addressed the Baron,• in,a oipeeeli of consiclerable length, drew: a lic.st 4 4 picture of the situation to which dal Was reduced by the ..iog'sitrest,tible passion for war,. renutuxed all allegiance and °be- , thence to the person and I) Lad ) tit us IV. and dedifud him and tli, is,,nc, now and tor, Lver, srl the. Ca o 0 :Ind (..4.,% croon. tit or S‘A etien. Thri 11,irt11, with tUrieli fitillacsS illltl innin atiott, 'then ti'd;.t.i act, alt, y.i!eitin 0 1 . t i , iji lel iltda it lh ;Wit tollgate couCtuted,:. ino \Lith the apprvii,tton of 01,2 Men:bets coittpov t iug ASstalllAy ? and reiterat4'..d of Yes, ! Yes ! re4ouihkti , , troal pints, and Bari t 1 .. uectara , , tiou was auopit,..l by the cOnititutiott - ii ItepreNenia. lives 10l [he Swcdolt nation, without 4 sing'lC Setitiel i A I fiahness was then condueted'lo the chair, whicb he.itddressed the Assembly,. Ito proceede , d to retnarl 'upon:the' Stahl of the litttion, 111)&44d thesbuses . %vincit hail crept into eCery dcp.irr nretit.kil the St.lte, and Lite inadequacy of flit: resiruin or s.lplire . ,s those abuses. ft theretore,becartio, in his oplincqi, itroi s iu :ll: . ; .,bly tic cessary to hew 'model the Constitution, and enact such laws. as should secure the coontry from are. currence of the L , .its winch hr0 tt .. 2 ,1,t It t o r',". titink.-of ruin., The Cy;c.ctatio:a e s Q portant to toe vital 4114:tests tl Swt.dett, Itt, confided to the united wi;idom anti.counseii ofthe State*, arid hoped they would discharge their ditty wiilt creditto themselves and %do *: nna to their couotrY. In th e m elt) time he w o uld take upon hirn3.,ll, nod ante to the orhis ahillty J the to.to.tgemern of publie,.zitfAtirs .trs the en2aCitlT at ilegtut, and wii.hect mat . Itottin2, sip.roLl be reA.nNed Upon 111X.3:',',11 than rive OWN Coliit:tntion &41v, u audimsented tor tits' ties, It....stired from Itai-ASsetuhly antisti load anti re iter4ed zcciamatiNts. 4).tuorrow a Committee for drawing up Cll.! new Constitution U. ill tie chosen, ittid wlkltcll they shall bate terminated their ltibouys,.,it 'sopposva that •the States will dectorr themsel‘es in savour of his Royal Highness ; ntid, innee,l, it would appear 'to ilie general wish of the ttitti.disto see the crown uic head, and the hen pre in the hand,•ot 0 wit. of loch• cohstuiunate wisdom and trittd pa trtoti4;n. Cross-examitied..--13ecstne acquainted tvi; h Sambo Johu abnut three weeks before he %vas ap:lehended. • Thomas fit -4 fold Mutt of the purpose of their meet-. ings. When he saw J hrr he had a 'COW-horn fait of powder in Iris-hand; and told witness that were assembling to burn, the toWit, and to ;.,et rid of the rolsters. John hod z white lint, and witness unde4stood that all hiS party %ere to been hits of ths . sortie deseripti . on: Witness was interrogated by the So - "tenon for the prisopers, the cljnyrrsation• to French, ai inentioned;abnve : he said, that he con ceived what John W"." arcs thedi noes al ions a Green?, :cti pour..savoir st nous iron is la Tooth.r.t';'. l which . he ,tepeAtc,tl to Thomas, who told la,ti inYmglish that thew were big words. %mess never said that he wouLLI be re% kmgeci up Sambo,r,,lm for haviiir cirack pion ; tint, 14Ad h;ut the momon that if he had he. , t) <i inatch tor hint he would have struck bhp avain. In his cross-exami nation he did not in the ''lea,t d,vre ary from his first statement to the Court And 'Jury. lie was appre bended on the '27 to January. ' Thomez,s• 'Odin wits. cones,rngd in the plot, but perwittei to kcotrics' evidcnce), 1 , 11101 next eatleil. • • , Here Mr. IVPDouglad appl . wd to the Court for leave to 111011/111e one; of the presiding Judges, Molony; Ist') who wag ,nut,l! of lite Miigistrates he lore whoop the ex:to:in:lo6os were taken, and, after consideratile'legil Ir4urnenti, it was granted. Mr. M`Douglad -then Mr. Alo!any it - he had not promised the s, it he told ail he knew, he ; would by pardone, ; which he express!) , denied, but candidly declary:l !hat he told witness it would be his best policy to tell ah truth and all he knew. Mr. WI). wished to make this appear to bee pro mise to Thomas, and that, Jheretore, from the au thorities he quoted, he wai not kcompetent Witness. Mr. Whyte, howevet, in the wait cleat and . fa:.(017 111;%1MOr refuted all his obif ! t_tions. • Thomas then proevded: he bas - known both pri soners a long ritne; used to tocet them elery ing at Solas's corner to go up to the , old road to mos.; ter, .where they were exercised like soldiers;' John . acted as an officer; the Duhe '(the usher prisoner within) told him (witness) ttilit he was an_ officer, but did riot tell bhn What °Aker he was; met them at the new road. Ahn had l rum. in a cocoasmat and drank—" Liberty is sweet, and liberty we'll have." George Buttess• thank atter him, and said, that'll berty was good, but that'wal, not the way to get it, and that he had. known pewit: taken up at Trinidad,, and hung for 'such expressions. Heard George Burgess tell John, that Cirdenwleh . 1 • 35 lop swot guar ded. Jdlin told witness 'that Millward's houSe was' the place first ,to begin with the fire, and then to slaughter all the white people as they came up ) . the Duke also told bun so ; they were divided into parties ; was, present when they fired .. at a target ; Sambo John bit it, w hid' i neon; named Hussej, said wits a good shot, When , the muster etkivd, Sambo John carried the piguls bollie to the Doke's. r 4.1 .44.411411.4,4 INCI4E-DON i$ DOW' 1 1 erfortolog at Edinburgh, wtaart be made bis tirst twpearatrwe qn Wudiles'ikAY )40 Aturtwath. A man lios, been cotnn - litt.A to Warwick Gaol, forunniercitully beta itig bisAnaiter'i borle• Nalibi - E%0447.4014, MAY 24.---Th 5 clay there lityplioit of 'Wheat, the sait,tpici chietti ittitntitt 113 d orditinry, owing tl) thc late advices AlO ogpected sppphes holt) Athetic.t, taws I,l4yottilott btavy sslei, at lower pro:vs; 1i) eat leSS; I,lltritly its I:lrge stipply, and ak;ain tilteapor; likewise ; I'va4d a:141 lieoaivf the way i4l prices; the n! are large itippiteg or alts, inany More at frotu 714 tiGrt toles thoroof are tairitt this wok is si, pt.r t'ack cheaper, arid expo:lod at .furil,p_r reAttiou. Prov , lhe 1,0A 1 1) 61V G4IZEITE, gap t)3, 1809. # Alai/ E. 33, 1803. Copy of a Litter ,froin Re r-Aclrni , Al' the Honourable Sir Alexander, Cochrane, K. B ,Cornrnal.der in Chief of his Majesty's Ships Zilti Veesels,at the Leeward to the lionourable Pole, d iced nn hoard the Neptune, of the mon,. PASS.:I3C, the 17th Of r - Vpril 184 Sl4, Having in. my letter . (t' 0. 637), ;dated the 7tl inst. informed the the. Coininissioners of the :Ad. mirh/ty of the atangemen tA th it had been made be tween Lieutenant-General Beckwith and aitA for the reduiiion of the Saiuts, and, if possible, to secure the French squadron of three ships of the line and two frigates, then at anchor there, which it is ascer tained were sent to this counfry expressly for the relief of Martinique; have now the honour to,ric quaint you, for their Tma4hip3'information, w 1! 1 our subsequent - proceedings. which have beet at tended with the capture Of Le D'fiautpoialt, a rmu new ship, of sevenly-tour guns, °Utile largest chisS„, The troops under the columned of 11 1 1, ijoi General Maitland, •arrived at the Saints on the I3th inst. and were landed the .following day with little less, the direffion of all naval 'operations ConlW.ted with the army' having bee.o left entirely with C.tptain Beaver, of the Acasta, who , conduated that service with all the correffiess and celerity whiCh I expeeted of him. On the afternoon of the same day two hokt ;tzars and mortars began to play upon the enemy's ship' and I received information that one 41 the line had ' weighed one of her aneliorct, bus that the, others did - not appear to .be pleoring . for sea. • -• must hero call their Lordships' attention to the situation of the SAnts, which have three .passages the enemy could escape through,' and these being situated in differetir diretiinns male it particularly difficult to guard by five ships of the line, .so as to bring an egt4l force to meet the enemy at either. point. At half past nine in the evening the concerted signal was naVe for the enemy's ships having put to sea ; but rte 3ign3l3 'were i * or their haying gone troth to windwarcloand to leeward of-the islands, which was literAily the cai , e, ax I am informed the two frigates proceeded one way, and the three line► of-battle ships the other. The Neptune beh at that time off the South • West PaSSage, r fade salt to join the Po ed under the NN'st End; which ship .I found had closed with, and in chnceof shree ships, apparently standing to the NV. S. W. but from their appear ance in the dark, I did not suppose them to be of the line. At this time I was particularly at a 1035 110. W to.a6t, for if those ships should be the entraly:c small men of war, and the line of battle ships re ported to be preparing .tor sea, shouht remain be- • hindi the ithdrawMg the Sqoadron from We Saints 'would have 'been 'fatal to the'tronps,lanced he preceding day. The nigi,t vi as very dark, and it was not possiYh to det-rmine a hetber the whole of the _4.liipS making 61-f were of the line or not, although we crosse:i sr, near the sternmost, that her shot struck the Neptune, and killHd one mats and wounded four. When daylight approiehiA they were clearly disr;mieretl, and every endeavo , )r tried to come up with thorn, the Potnilee bein4 the only line cat I,kole ship, in company, the fri gatt4 not joining • until the ft, lowing' .Some ships werttsrY,t) li f oTtu th triitit.ltcad, 1;.; wlioto I E.ntt to signify, by a stool► of war til,o course , v‘e were steering. The superiority of the enemy's sailing, left little chance for ►he Neptune getting up, unlcis some of the ships were disabled, and it any accident h penetiti.) th Pomp masts, they.mtl4,lflovit;ih'ly .haveall eAcapecti I Ilwrofor,e dite;i4d Capt. Fa:l4l tp endeavour to cripple the steromota 0,44 bringing on the colle6led in of the three, then in' litte abreast. In this attempt 110 was root supported by Carpe, Napier, of his Nitijosty's sloop Recruit, who kept claw up, although 11 red at from all their stern chase guns, and did every thing that as possible 10 be done to cut ,away the enemy's mask and. rigging, and continued na ,service - during the' wilole chrice, which :histedi notil tllt Inorynng •at thtee, wiles d' I-hut ;omit was brought too;' an tiv the Po;nl<:6.aud"Gri , aor,'a3 Zvi more fuliyamear by Cvtoin t Ahir's letter, here • - I should not render justice to that excell , mt cer was I to' withhold the prat t nine to ,lirafor unremitted attention during so hglg an 4 arduoni a pursuit, and his taking such advantages of the c•11-`»tk MY ' s sittlation_a4 occasionally nccurrci.. !rive much to regret the lois (11' those that have (Alen anti suffered on the occasion, "a digit of witoili is inclosed. M the other two ships or the enemy wparated on the morning of the t 7th, at two O'clock, their route :31 - Mot be well ascertained, 1 sapppse they msdo sail to the Sodth ward, and will tlivot4) the S:warere passlige. l'hey owsailett th),. bq inticil F 4 to be at tno great a Likt,wee t t is • oh. served when they parted,' we (,f Poinp6v'i 1 an, f.ow w3iting oritil the Poll , ; )&:.! pi' are refitted, to'..proeeed lo the • have tit:lnc:ilea the :York Vk :1 i ; - gates and a sloop of 'war, to the os,itt,v:lF - :! intercept the elle:ll4's two s'tr'ips that 1), Until their 'Lordships' pleesere is k0.0..vv„, :v't cootraisvoned, the pri7e, i)11(..t av,.101;11e41 Cs . lOoto Napierto the voolroatld of her, xs a 1e,,v,:11.;.1 spirited eondut durittg Oat Colo tcca. I have thelion..mr to be, Ste. C(..)0 Firt.A.N His Mik:stv's Ship Pompet, April 17, tStttf, Ciwo Roxo, • l'urto N. k, by N. tovii ur etgia }laving, in obedience to. taut • co:nmo. nicwf_ll to me by teiegro; - .!) at P. \I. nit Cie 1411 i in,tint, procceaetl 13:itter I 'oe roe th porpoie 4)t 11. c , itutioto, slionht Hwy a:tempt. 10 !() 914 n u tiliwaid, 1 4.l),vrvet.l 400 i) woe. fr:an the sil,,dl ships mid br1 ;41 s!) , y; Wider the onkrs Captein eittlie.ruo; of jesty'lt stoup the. Haz:ird, that Ht.! t:iietny put'. to sea, those slgii.tho ‘Sete ter,e:Jtail !t) you viii i forty ntittoies goi2it t bt-aring Ea t, al)oitt a z•,,id a h a lf, sAw ships conn.o4 (f.7'.:11 anl.l foitilyet.l cioaeiy to the I Ilz,ird ati.l +ov, r atilqrs vt the. iif-shirt! 1291.1aZirvii, with thtt